GQ promises its story will explain what the hell, exactly, Campbell was thinking on the stand at Charles Taylor's trial, but we're not expecting much given the mag didn't press Campbell on the subject during their last interview. [GQ UK]

Naomi Campbell also swears she totally didn't perjure herself, and neither did her lawyer or her manager, when she was deposed in her long-running perfume royalties lawsuit with her former agent. Naomi Campbell would never do that, you guys, says Naomi Campbell. [Vogue UK]

French publishing giant Lagardère has struck a deal with Hearst to sell off all 102 of its foreign magazines, including all fifteen international editions of Elle, for some $880 million. Lagardère retains ownership of the Elle trademark. [WWD]

Kate Betts even wrote a weekend op-ed defending Obama's McQueen dress. Are we really still talking about this? [NYTimes]

Meanwhile, Diane Von Furstenberg is giving the second-ever DVF awards — an award the designer invented, to give to women working for the women's rights and wellbeing worldwide — to Kakenya Ntaiya of Kenya and Sohini Chakraborty Saleem of India, who work with the Vital Voices Global Partnership. Each winner gets $50,000, and presumably an awesome looking plaque with "DVF Winner" or somesuch on it. You can also vote at Von Furstenberg's website for the People's Choice DVF. The nominees are Lyn Pentecost of The Lower Eastside Girls Club, Malika Saada Saar of The Rebecca Project, Zeinab Eyega of Sauti Yetu Center for African Women, Taryn Davis of The American Widow Project and Susannah Shakow of Running Start. [WWD]

Emmy Rossum and Elie Tahari are launching a handbag collection. Tahari says it came about like this: "I was talking to her about her style and I saw that she had good taste and she liked [my] bags. She'd say, ‘I wish it was this way, I wish it was like that…' and I said, ‘You know what, Emmy? You come in and you design it like you like.'" [WWD]

Heidi Klum, on family life: "We are done now. I think four to look after is plenty. We aren't like Angelina and Brad. Four is a good number." [NYDN]

Lauren Conrad says she is "hoping" to show her fashion line at New York fashion week. Last we checked, that starts on February 10. Conrad should probably, like, make up her mind about having a show pretty, like, soon. [ContactMusic]

Connie Wang does a nice job fisking Vogue Italia editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani, who recently wrote that fashion bloggers are like "a viral cold" afflicting the fashion industry. (Sozzani wrote this on...her blog.) [Refinery29]

Tali Lennox, the daughter of Eurythmics singer Annie, is now a model. She is currently featured in a campaign for Swedish label Acne. [Telegraph]

New Barneys C.E.O. Mark Lee has named Amanda Brooks, the author of I Love Your Style and a creative director of now-defunct label Tuleh, as the struggling department store chain's new fashion director. Lee has shaken up the Barneys staff, firing longtime employees like Julie Gilhart (Brooks' predecessor) and Judy Collinson, and demoting store creative director Simon Doonan. [WWD]

Now that he owns Betsey Johnson, Steve Madden's plans for growth include selling lots of shoes. Lots and lots of shoes. (We got a press release about Betsey Johnson shoes just last week. Must be happening already.) [WWD]

Stephen Thompson, the albino male model featured in the current Givenchy campaign, works as a teacher's aide with blind and visually-impaired preschoolers. (Albinism is linked to blindness, and Thompson is blind in one eye.) Thompson has worked as a model since he was 17, and has released a hip-hop album. He tries to explain his appeal: "I think people wanna be rebels in a society that's very funnel-like, where everybody becomes a lawyer. People wanna be rebels, they change how they look. And you can say about me, I'm just a born-natural rebel. I mean, the fuck, my genes are rebels — I'm sayin', my genes are rebels." [New York]

Fellow Givenchy favorite Lea T., who is transsexual, walked in designer Alexandre Herchcovitz's swimwear show at Sao Paulo fashion week. Paparazzi swarmed her as she was leaving the show. (Her father is a famous soccer player named Toninho Cerezo.) Gisele Bündchen and Ashton Kutcher also modeled during fashion week. [Breitbart]

After Samsung pulled out of its deal to buy the very distressed fashion asset Gianfranco Ferré, the label's future was uncertain. Now it appears that a Dubai-based fashion distributor and franchise-holder called Paris Group may be making an offer. [WWD]